UPDATE - Home of Grace, Birmitrapur, India

Approximately once a month, we invite a special guest to come and tell about their ministry in a voluntary devotion for NewLife employees. In June of 2007, Mrs. Joyce Cannon, a missionary to India, was our devotion speaker and she shared pictures of Bibles that NewLife had donated being distributed, as well as pictures of t-shirts we had donated being worn by children from several orphanages she works with on a regular basis.

One of the pictures was of a small group of twelve children, a young man, his wife and their own child. In contrast to the other pictures, this picture was taken in front of a small house and the children did not show the same joy that was exhibited by children depicted from other orphanages. Mrs. Cannon went on to explain that these twelve children had been displaced when a local orphanage in Birmitrapur, India had closed its doors and that if Pastor Paritosh Nanda and his wife, Deepa, had not felt led to take these children into their own home, they would likely have ended up being sold - the boys into slave labor and the girls for prostitution. The young pastor and his wife could not bear to see this happen and had taken all twelve children into their small home. After hearing this story, NewLife's employees wanted to help and the company made a commitment to sponsor these children for one year until an appropriate Christian orphanage could be established.

On November 28, 2007, Mrs. Cannon was back at NewLife sharing with our employees an update on this project. With our funding, which solely comes from the sale of our products to customers like you, they have been able to rent property next door to Pastor Paritosh and Deepa's home providing two large rooms for the boys and girls along with bathroom facilities. Though the funding was adequate to rent the facility, the children were still sleeping on concrete floors with only very thin, cloth mats for bedding. As a result of the positive report from Mrs. Cannon, our company president, Mr. Humble, and his wife made a personal donation for the purchase of bunk beds, bed linens, and a sweater for each of the twelve children.

The pictures below are of the children wearing their new lime green t-shirts donated by NewLife Industries, which we were told they refused to take off for four days! Possibly the most exciting thing to us was the dramatic difference in the children's expressions, as well as their physical condition in comparison to the original photographs. Mr. Humble asked us to exchange the original photographs we had put up on our web site with these beautiful children's faces. It was very obvious that these children were now being well cared for and more importantly, LOVED!

Thank you for helping this transformation take place in the lives of these children.

Sushil - 6 Yrs	Punit - 8 Yrs	Prem - 6 Yrs
Preeti - 5 Yrs	Poonam - 8 Yrs	Jyoti - 6 Yrs
Jeelani - 7 Yrs	Jai Masih - 6 Yrs	Biswasi - 8 Yrs
Anjali - 7 Yrs	Anita - 8 Yrs	Angel - 7 Yrs

UPDATE - TONGOLI CHURCH DEDICATED

Last year NewLife partnered with Samaritan's Purse and other donors to rebuild the Tongoli Church in Sudan. This Church, which had been destroyed during the civil war, was rededicated in August 2007. NewLife is pleased to be part of such a worthy project and we hope you will take a moment to view pictures of the new church and the dedication service.

For more information about the Tongoli Church rebuilding including progress pictures click here.

We thank you, our customers, for helping to make ministry projects like these possible.

Ms. Peggy Woods
Ministry Outreach Director
NewLife Industries, Inc.

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